PROTECT OUR PARKS, INC. v. BUTTIGIEG

No. 21-2449.

39 F.4th 389 (2022)

PROTECT OUR PARKS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Pete BUTTIGIEG, Secretary of Transportation, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 1, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Epstein , Attorney, Norwalk, CT, Catherine M. Keenan , Thomas G. Gardiner , Attorneys, Gardiner Koch Weisberg & Wrona, Chicago, IL, Michael Rachlis , Attorney, Rachlis, Duff, Adler & Peel LLC, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Allen M. Brabender , Attorney, Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Stephanie Pollack, Acting Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, Arlene Kocher, Division Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, Illinois Division, Matt Fuller, Environmental Programs Engineer, Federal Highway Administration, Illinois Division, Deb Haaland, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Shawn Benge, Deputy Director, Operations, Exercising the Delegated Authority of the Director of the National Park Service, Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army.

Jeffrey N. Candrian , Attorney, Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellee Paul B. Cullberson, Commanding Officer of the Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District.

Myriam Z. Kasper , Attorney, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, Elizabeth Tisher , Andrew Worseck , Attorneys, City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee City of Chicago.

Joseph P. Roddy , Attorney, Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Chicago Park District.

David H. Hoffman , Kelsey E. Annu-Essuman , Paul E. Bateman, Jr. , Tacy Fletcher Flint , Rachel Hampton , Attorneys, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL, Peter R. Steenland, Jr. , Attorney, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC, fro Defendant-Appellee Obama Foundation.

Craig C. Martin , Matt Basil , Samuel James Murray Gamer , Attorneys, WIllkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Chicago, IL, for Amici Curiae Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, Chicago Urban League, Chicago Community Trust.

Kenneth L. Schmetterer , Attorney, DLA Piper LLP (US), Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae University of Chicago.

Randall E. Mehrberg , Gabriel Gillett , Elena M. Olivieri , Daniel J. Weiss , Attorneys, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae Chicagoland Museums.

Mary Eileen Cunniff Wells , Michael L. Shakman , Attorneys, Miller, Shakman Levine & Feldman LLP, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae Community Representatives.

Before Wood and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.


In 2016, after a nationwide search, the Barack Obama Foundation decided to build the Obama Presidential Center in historic Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side. The City of Chicago and the Chicago Park District embraced the plan. But a group of residents, under the banner of an organization called Protect Our Parks, Inc., vehemently...

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